Founded in 1958, the Belleville Arts Association (BAA) is a community within a community of over 127 local artists, and growing, supporting, and promoting visual art in the City of Bellville and surrounding areas.
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Belleville’s Own: Supporting the joy of art
Jan Coombs is the Executive and Studio Chair: “Outside of our new gallery location, we also sell on-line. We are the best deal in town, if you are interested in putting your work up in a gallery. If you haven’t done that before, we are the place to be because it is not juried, so anyone who feels they are ready to do that can come and join us.”
Membership is only $75 for the year, and you get to put a piece of work in every month for $5, also two smaller pieces for only $5 in a special section called Small Works. The BAA gallery also displays creative artisan crafts such as scarves, jewelry, and cards.
the new police station, CIBC Wood Gundy, the Children’s Aid Society and Anchorage Condominium where they have over 50 pieces for sale, changing them up three times a year. So, there are several places in the downtown community where the public can see a local artist’s work if the latter is a member of. the association.
Coombs is a perfect example of a typical member, someone who has retired and wants to paint:
“I started painting when I retired in 2001. I did not know I could paint. I was interested in creativity but never took a painting course when I worked because I was too busy to investigate those kinds of things. I got initially got interested through a class on how to frame your work given by Ginette Campbell, a fabulous artist. She suggested I take a painting class, and I was hooked from the very start. It was the beginning of second career for me. Art gives me a lot of joy. I now paint all the time, and I have even won some awards. I believe in finding joy in life for yourself and others. Art takes you away from everything, and the hours go by along with all your worries. You create something that wasn’t there before.”
The Belleville Artist Association gallery is located at 208 Front Street.
Visit their website at www.bellevilleart.ca.
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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
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